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...Women. In northern Luzon, the 32nd Division's all-male 107th Medical Battalion baseball team played the Bayom-bong Filipino Girls' Club, lost the game...
...Americans, too, had paid. Example: the 32nd Infantry Division's battle for Villa Verde Trail had been one of the bloodiest in U.S. Army history. In 119 days of almost constant fighting, the 32nd lost 1,051 killed, 3,201 wounded, 14 missing-4,266 in all. And the final count was still to be made...
...World War I the 32nd Infantry Division was the first to pierce the Hindenburg Line. Last week, in mopping-up operations in northern Luzon, the Michigan-Wisconsin National Guard outfit passed its 600th day in battle in this war, claimed another record: "the highest total combat time amassed by any American Army division in any war." Mindful that among combat outfits an argument in superlatives is easy to start, the 32nd waited to hear its claim disputed...
...Technical Sergeant William L. Brown of De Witt, Ark., it all began in New Guinea, where the 32nd Division commander badly needed a Jap prisoner to question, and promised a furlough as payment. Brown scurried off into the bush, brought back a live Jap, spent his leave in Australia and got married there...
...Bull Swift, alerted his men against surprise Jap paratroop attacks with the stern words: "The best goddam way for a Jap to commit suicide is to land near a cavalry unit or otherwise horse around with a cavalry unit." The outfit seized Tacloban, later fought next to the veteran 32nd ("Red Arrow") in the bloody, muddy Ormoc pincers operation...